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The Best Indoor House Shoes for Men This Winter

The Best Indoor House Shoes for Men This Winter

A good house shoe is essentially Prozac you wear on your feet. Hit ice-cold hardwood in those tragic, pancake-flat socks you've been ignoring since...

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Paul Jebara

The 12 Most Noteworthy London Restaurant Openings of 2025

The 12 Most Noteworthy London Restaurant Openings of 2025

It’s been a big year for London’s culinary scene. There have been dozens of new openings, from small cafes, to shiny new imports, to local...

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Emily Zemler

Review: ‘Marjorie Prime’ Tracks the Ghost in the Machine of Artificial Intelligence

Review: ‘Marjorie Prime’ Tracks the Ghost in the Machine of Artificial Intelligence

June Squibb’s Broadway resumé reaches back to a stint in the original production of Gypsy in 1960. Photo by Joan Marcus Just imagine how many...

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David Cote

Walmart Moves to Nasdaq—Outgoing CEO Doug McMillon on What Lies Ahead

Walmart Moves to Nasdaq—Outgoing CEO Doug McMillon on What Lies Ahead

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon speaks before the opening bell at the Nasdaq Marketsite on Dec. 9, 2025 in New York City. Photo by Michael M....

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

What Hauser & Wirth’s Palermo Move Reveals About Cultural Branding in Art and Luxury

What Hauser & Wirth’s Palermo Move Reveals About Cultural Branding in Art and Luxury

Hauser & Wirth set to open its new Italian outpost in Palermo, acquiring the historical Palazzo De Seta. Photo: Giovanni Costagliola. Courtesy...

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Elisa Carollo

Sotheby’s Closes Its Inaugural Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week With $133 Million in Sales

Sotheby’s Closes Its Inaugural Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week With $133 Million in Sales

Sotheby’s Collectors’ Week featured auctions, private sales, exhibitions and masterclasses hosted in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Investment...

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Elisa Carollo

11 Executives Steering Warner Bros. Discovery’s Crown Jewel Media Assets

11 Executives Steering Warner Bros. Discovery’s Crown Jewel Media Assets

David Zaslav attends the HBO Max Primetime Emmy Awards Afterparty at San Vicente Bungalows on Sept. 14, 2025. David Jon/Getty Images for HBO Max As...

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Rachel Curry

2025 Nightlife & Dining Power Index

2025 Nightlife & Dining Power Index

During this moment of A.I. and automation and bots and everything changing all at once, the hospitality business is still about human creativity...

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The Editors, Merin Curotto And Andy Wang

From Rejection to Revolution: Santa Barbara Museum of Art Charts the Rise of the Impressionists

The stylistic and intellectual offshoots that the short-lived movement spawned marked a sea change, paving the way for 20th-century art.

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Jordan Riefe

Google’s Gemini Rapidly Closes In on ChatGPT as Antitrust Scrutiny Mounts

Gemini’s surge underscores a shifting power balance in generative A.I. as regulators move to scrutinize Google’s tactics.

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Victor Dey

Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Signs the Giving Pledge: Interview

Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Signs the Giving Pledge: Interview

Craig Newmark is the latest signee of the Giving Pledge. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Craig Newmark, the founder of...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Jensen Huang Wins Big: Nvidia Regains Access to China’s A.I. Market

Jensen Huang Wins Big: Nvidia Regains Access to China’s A.I. Market

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang scores a major victory after months of lobbying for renewed access to the Chinese A.I. market. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

Otani Workshop’s “anima” is at Perrotin New York through December 20. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli. ©2022-25 Otani Workshop/Kaikai Kiki Co.,...

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Elisa Carollo

“Dirty Looks” at the Barbican Art Gallery Is Intentionally Messy

“Dirty Looks” at the Barbican Art Gallery Is Intentionally Messy

The show examines the signification of dirty as a shorthand for transgressing polished aesthetics, for dismantling impeccable craftsmanship and for...

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Sarah Moroz

Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

Es Devlin’s Library of Us at Faena Hotel Miami Beach was much more than an Instagram attraction. Photos by Oriol Tarridas Es Devlin’s Library of Us...

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Elisa Carollo

The Corner Store Is Taking Its Caviar-Topped Lobster Rolls and Martini Service to Las Vegas

The Corner Store Is Taking Its Caviar-Topped Lobster Rolls and Martini Service to Las Vegas

The Corner Store is heading to Las Vegas. Emily Andrews for Rockwell Group and The Corner Store The Corner Store, which has been one of New York...

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Andy Wang

Jet Set: The Hawaii Packing Edit

Jet Set: The Hawaii Packing Edit

Welcome to Jet Set, a recurring feature in which we highlight our favorite accessories and travel essentials perfect for any kind of trip. As we...

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Morgan Halberg

The “Grosse Pièce” Sets a New Auction Record for Audemars Piguet at Sotheby’s

The “Grosse Pièce” Sets a New Auction Record for Audemars Piguet at Sotheby’s

Audemars Piguet’s “Grosse Pièce,” which sold for $7.7 million with fees over a $1 million high estimate. Courtesy Sotheby's Sotheby’s inaugural...

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Christa Terry

In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination

In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination

Sotheby’s new Breuer location is quickly becoming a cultural destination. Photograph by Emma Milligan/Sotheby’s Sotheby’s reported unprecedented...

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Elisa Carollo

Hinge Debuts A.I. Conversation Starter to Rescue Users From the ‘Dating Apocalypse’

Hinge Debuts A.I. Conversation Starter to Rescue Users From the ‘Dating Apocalypse’

Hinge’s newest feature uses A.I. to provide personalized conversation starters. Courtesy Hinge Hinge wants users to skip the small talk. Instead of...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

David Ellison’s Case for Paramount to Own Warner Bros. Discovery

David Ellison’s Case for Paramount to Own Warner Bros. Discovery

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2025. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via...

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Saleah Blancaflor

Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman

Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman

Mark Zuckerberg attends the WSJ. Magazine 2025 Innovator Awards at MoMA on Oct. 29, 2025 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for...

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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

How Jorge Pardo Turns Light, Color and Form into a Phenomenology of Seeing

How Jorge Pardo Turns Light, Color and Form into a Phenomenology of Seeing

Installation view: “Jorge Pardo” at Petzel in 2025. Photos by Meg Symanow, courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York Known for his sensorially...

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Elisa Carollo

Santa Barbara’s Best Restaurant Openings of 2025

Santa Barbara’s Best Restaurant Openings of 2025

Santa Barbara’s flourishing food and beverage scene reached new heights in 2025. Although this affluent beach town is best known for its idyllic...

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Allie Lebos

Robert Therrien’s Ordinary Uncanny at the Broad in L.A.

Robert Therrien’s Ordinary Uncanny at the Broad in L.A.

The exhibition traces Therrien’s evolution from small drawings to large-scale sculptural environments that redefine spatial experience. Photo:...

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Jordan Riefe

Earned Media Is Becoming the New Currency of A.I.-Driven Discovery

Earned Media Is Becoming the New Currency of A.I.-Driven Discovery

A shift from keyword-driven SEO to question-and-answer GEO is transforming how organizations build authority and show up in A.I.-powered discovery....

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Alana Gold

Curtains and Cauldrons: The Delicate Politics of Exhibiting Leonora Carrington

Curtains and Cauldrons: The Delicate Politics of Exhibiting Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington, The Elements, 1946. Oil on panel, 35.6 x 99.8 cm. Rudman Trust Collection. © Estate of Leonora Carrington, by SIAE 2025. Photo:...

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Guia Cortassa

Google’s New A.I. Chip Is Shaking Nvidia’s Dominance: What to Know

Google’s New A.I. Chip Is Shaking Nvidia’s Dominance: What to Know

The Sphere in Las Vegas displays an advertisement for Google Gemini on Nov. 18, 2025. Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images Last week, The Information...

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Victor Dey

Isaac Mizrahi On the Enduring Charm of “Peter & the Wolf”

Isaac Mizrahi On the Enduring Charm of “Peter & the Wolf”

This year’s production of Peter & the Wolf continues the long-running collaboration between Isaac Mizrahi and choreographer John Heginbotham....

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Why Pricing Needs a Behavioral Reset in an Era of Rising Costs

Why Pricing Needs a Behavioral Reset in an Era of Rising Costs

As rising costs squeeze margins, behavioral pricing techniques offer leaders a way to increase revenue without pushing prices beyond what customers...

05.12.2025 1

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Ann Padley And Jenny Millar

When Positivity Turns Toxic: How Cultures That Silence Dissent Lose Their Edge

When Positivity Turns Toxic: How Cultures That Silence Dissent Lose Their Edge

When leaders insist on positivity at all costs, they create brittle systems unable to confront reality. Unsplash In his book Everything Was...

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Steven D’Souza